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Cloud Cost Management release notes

Review the notes below for details about recent changes to Harness Cloud Cost Management, NextGen SaaS. For release notes for Harness Self-Managed Enterprise Edition, go to Self-Managed Enterprise Edition release notes.

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Harness deploys changes to Harness SaaS clusters on a progressive basis. This means that the features and fixes that these release notes describe may not be immediately available in your cluster. To identify the cluster that hosts your account, go to the Account Overview page.

Latest - April 19, 2023, version 79104​

What's new​

  • Recommendations enhancement (CCM-11769)

    A new filter has been added to recommendations, which allows the selection of the age of the recommendations. This filter allows you to specify how many days old recommendations should be included in the results.

Previous releases​

2023 releases

April 05, 2023, version 79001​

What's new​

  • Workload recommendations enhancement. (CCM-9161)(Zendesk Ticket ID 34658)

    Introduced support for 100th percentile in workload recommendations. Recommendations will be displayed for 100% usage of workloads.

Early access​

This release does not include any early access features.

Fixed issues​

  • Updated the default perspective names from Aws to AWS and Gcp to GCP. (CCM-11770)

  • Discrepancy in the number of EC2 recommendations. (CCM-11730)

    The Terminate-type recommendations were not being saved, and certain EC2 recommendations were disappearing after a specific interval of time. This issue has been resolved.

  • The link to the perspective on the Anomalies page was incorrect. (CCM-11403)

    This issue has been fixed, and the link now directs to the correct perspective.

March 21, 2023, version 78903​

What's new​

  • Enabled audit trail for budget groups. (CCM-11387)

    With this enhancement, you can track all CRUD operations such as Create, Delete, and Update related to budget groups.

  • Display the AWS account ID and name on the Recommendations page. (CCM-11666)

    The AWS Account ID has been added to the ECS Services on the Recommendations list page.

  • Cost category enhancement (CCM-10580)

    Introduced support to allocate the cost of shared cost buckets by a fixed percentage among each cost bucket. A new user interface has been developed.

    For more information, go to Use Cost Categories.

Early access​

This release does not include any early access features.

Fixed issues​

  • The error message displayed while creating a Jira ticket to apply recommendations was not meaningful. (CCM-10822)

    A comprehensive Jira error message will be displayed in the user interface whenever it is feasible. However, there may be instances where only a generic message such as "Error creating issue" will be displayed when the Jira error is not parsed.

March 13, 2023​

What's new​

  • Cost Category enhancements (CCM-10280)

    • When calculating the cost for Unattributed, the rules present in the shared cost bucket are not considered to eliminate duplicate costs.
    • If Cost Category is NOT NULL in a perspective, it means all cost buckets are considered. Unattributed is not taken into account.
    • If the Cost Category is NULL, it indicates that the cost buckets are not considered in the perspective. Unattributed is taken into account.
    • Previously, all shared cost buckets were displayed as No Groupby. Now, when you apply a GroupBy option other than the cost category, the cost of the rules present in the shared cost bucket are displayed in a separate entity based on the GroupBy selection you have made. However, it is important to note that this change will be effective only if you have incorporated cost category with shared buckets in perspective rules.
Early access​

This release does not include any early access features.

Fixed issues​

  • Previously, deleting a cost category caused the perspectives that utilized the cost category in their rule or GroupBy to crash. (CCM-9902)

    This issue has been fixed. Now, before the cost category is deleted, you will receive a prompt to perform one of the following actions:

    • Delete any perspectives that depend on the cost category.
    • Remove the cost category from the perspective's rule or GroupBy.

  • When you edit an AutoStopping rule in which the Health Check option is disabled, it is enabled when the client-side data is fetched. (CCM-11472)

    This issue has been fixed. Now, the Health Check option remains disabled when you edit the AutoStopping rule.

March 06, 2023​

What's new​

This release does not include any new features.

Early access​

This release does not include any early access features.

Fixed issues​

  • The ECS service billing data was missing in the Perspectives. (CCM-11464)

    This issue has been fixed, and all data is now accurately reflected on the Perspectives page without any errors.

  • The ANOMALY_DETECTION_CLOUD job responsible for displaying cloud anomalies was not being executed in accounts without a cluster connector. (CCM-11228)

    This issue has been fixed, and anomalies are now computed even in the absence of a cluster connector.

  • Previously, when attempting to delete a Recommendation filter, an error message would appear.(CCM-11300)

    This issue has been fixed now, and you can successfully delete a Recommendation filter without any error messages.

March 01, 2023​

What's new​
  • Introducing support for adding more than one CCM GCP connector when you have two or more billing export tables with different billing account IDs in the same dataset. (CCM-11244)
  • Introducing support for assigning a custom static port as the source port in the port configuration of the TCP traffic-based AutoStopping rule. (CCM-11264)
Early access​

This release does not include any early access features.

Fixed issues​

  • Previously, the Start Date selected when creating a budget was not being saved and instead the date of budget creation was being displayed as the Start Date. (CCM-10952)

    This issue is fixed now, and the Start Date selected during budget creation is now being saved correctly.

  • Previously, even when the Cascading option was turned off, the budget amount was being equally divided among all the budgets in the group. (CCM-10950)

    This issue is fixed now. The budget amount is no longer being distributed among individual budgets, ensuring that the budget amount of each budget remains unchanged.

  • If a health check status code is not entered for the AutoStopping proxy, Harness falls back to using the default range of 200-299. (CCM-11007)

February 20, 2023​

What's new​

  • AutoStopping Proxy for HTTPS and TCP connections.

    Harness CCM introduces AutoStopping Proxy to support AutoStopping for HTTPS and TCP connections. For more information, go to Add load balancers and Create AutoStopping rules.

Early access​

This release does not include any early access features.

Fixed issues​

  • The potential monthly savings displayed on the UI did not match with the Spot or On-Demand recommendations. (CCM-10698)

    The logic to calculate the potential monthly cost displayed on the UI has been fixed. Now, the savings match with the Spot or On-Demand recommendations.

  • Added the missing instance family types for Azure node pool recommendations. (CCM-10246)

  • When you create a budget with an invalid Period Starts from date with respect to the Budget Period, the error message displayed was unclear - "Invalid request: Error in create budget operation. Start time of budget is invalid." (CCM-10487)

    Now, the message clarifies why the date is invalid - "Invalid request: Budget Period and Period Start date cannot add up to be in the past."

  • The cost details API was returning only the AWS account ID without the account name. (CCM-10573)

    Now, the API returns both account name and ID.

January 31, 2023​

What's new​

This release does not include any new features.

Early access​

This release does not includeany early access features.

Fixed issues​

  • Hourly data on the Perspectives page showed an incorrect billing amount for multiple accounts. CloudFunction was unable to delete the existing records but continued ingesting a new entry in clusterDataHourly in BigQuery. (CCM-10711)

    This issue is fixed. Now, the Instance_Billing_Hourly job execution is limited to 5 times per minute to avoid CloudFunction failure.

  • The total costs displayed on the Overview page and the license-util page (or API) were incorrect in accounts with at least one Azure connector. (CCM-10678)

    A bug fix in the ingestion of aggregated costs for Azure resolved this issue.

January 18, 2023​

What's new​

This release does not include any new features.

Early access​

This release does not include any early access features.

Fixed issues​

  • While creating a Jira ticket to apply EC2 recommendations, the Account Name field in the Jira description incorrectly displayed the Account ID. (CCM-10507)

    Now, the issue is fixed, and the account name is displayed correctly.

January 04, 2023​

What's new​

This release does not include any new features.

Early access​

  • Standardize your currency across Harness CCM (CCM-9280)

    This release introduces Currency Preference that enables you to view the entire CCM application in your preferred currency for different cloud providers. This feature is behind a feature flag CCM_CURRENCY_PREFERENCES.

  • API implementation for the Currency Preferences feature (CCM-9632)

    You can now use the Currency Preference API to select the currency in which you want to view your entire CCM application across different cloud providers. Go to Harness API Documentation for more information.

Fixed issues​

This release does not include any fixed issues.

2022 releases

December 16, 2022​

What's new​

  • Introducing support to list the label keys that contain the string node-pool-name. (CCM-10203)

    While adding a node pool name, Harness CCM looked only for the exact match. Now, CCM has introduced support to check if the node label key contains the string node-pool-name. CCM falls back to contains if an exact match is not found. See Labels for node pool recommendations for more information.

Early access​

This release does not include any early access features.

Fixed issues​
  • The messages in budget alert notification emails were misleading. Now, the emails convey more meaningful and dynamic messages. They provide the cost type and the period for which the alert is created. (CCM-9291)

December 07, 2022, version 77716​

What's new​

This release does not include new features.

Early access​

This release does not include early access features.

Fixed issues​

  • First-time users could not launch the Kubernetes cluster creation workflow by using the Quick Create option on the Cloud Integration page. (CCM-9953)

    Now, this issue is fixed.

  • When you clicked Explore all plans on the Cloud Cost Management Getting Started page, you were directed to the old onboarding page instead of the new one. (CCM-9638)

    Now, this issue is fixed.

  • On the Recommendations page, when you clicked the Copy icon, a confirmation message was not displayed to be sure the metrics were copied. Also, the copied message contained unwanted strings such as null. (CCM-10009)

    Now, a confirmation message is displayed when you click the Copy icon and the format of the copied message is improved.

  • The anomaly tooltip in the Perspective details chart was not displayed properly if it extended beyond the chart. (CCM-9336)

    Now, this issue is fixed.

November 29, 2022, version 77608​

What's new​

NA

Early access​

NA

Fixed issues​

  • The bars in the Perspectives chart grouped by cost categories were not rendering properly. (CCM-9502)

    This issue is fixed by applying a limit on the number of cost buckets in the cost category. Now, when you group by cost categories in a Perspective, it returns the top 12 cost buckets instead of all cost buckets.

  • The GCP load balancer modal was showing undefined while creating a new load balancer. (CCM-9825)

    This issue is fixed. Now, it shows the term Load Balancer.

  • Azure VM inventory dashboards showed duplicate cost entries because every API call to pull VM data inserted a new row in the dashboard if the time of creation (creationTime) was different from the existing row of that VM. (CCM-9842)

    Now, this issue is fixed.

November 06, 2022, version 77317​

What's new​

This release adds validation to ensure that the load balancer domain name specified in the YAML file to create an AutoStopping rule is valid and exists in your Harness account. (CCM-9101)

Early access​

NA

Fixed issues​

  • When the Harness account ID of the customer begins with a hyphen, sts assume-role step in the data ingestion pipeline interpreted it as an additional argument, and thus failed to run the command.

    The account ID value is now assigned to role-session-name by explicitly using '='. This works with session names starting with a hyphen as well. (CCM-9481)

  • Clicking Save Cost Category more than once resulted in the creation of multiple cost categories with the same name.

    Now, the Cost category name is unique. You can't have two Cost categories with the same name. If you enter an existing Cost category name while updating or creating a Cost category, an error message is displayed — Invalid request: Cost category name already exists. (CCM-8934)

October 21, 2022, version 77221​

What's new​

You can now add labels to enable node pool recommendations. kops cluster node label has been added for node pool recommendations. See Labels for node pool recommendations for more information. (CCM-9309)

Early access​

NA

Fixed issues​

The AWS cost shown in the Perspective section and the dashboard mismatched. Duplicate account name entries that belonged to the same account ID caused this issue in the dashboards. (CCM-9344)

This issue is resolved.

October 07, 2022, version 77025​

Delegate version: 77021

What's new​

NA

Early access​

NA

Fixed issues​

  • The cluster data displayed in the Perspective preview section and the Perspective section were different because data was retrieved from two different tables. (CCM-8961)

    Now, you can apply one of the following rules in the Perspective preview section and the relevant table is queried:

    • Cluster only

    • Cluster + Common

    • Cluster + Label

    • Cluster + Label + Common

  • Users weren't able to download the YAML file while performing the Kubernetes cost reporting workflow. (CCM-9141)

    This issue is fixed now.

  • In the recommendation filter API, the labels were not handled properly. (CCM-9193)

    Now, Harness supports labels in the recommendation filter API for ECS and workloads only.

  • In the recommendation filter API, cost categories were not handled properly. (CCM-8808)

    In the recommendation filter APIs, now the following cases are supported:

    • Considering Business Mapping cluster rules while recommending.

    • Supporting the following cluster fields for the recommendation:

      • clusterName

      • namespace

      • workloadName

      • instanceName (node)

      • cloudServiceName (ECS)

  • Renaming the CD connector resulted in creating two cluster entries in the billing data, but both belong to the same cluster. (CCM-9195)

    Now, while updating the connector name, the cluster name is also updated to fix this issue. However, it isn't recommended to update the connector name.

September 29, 2022, version 76921​​

What's new​

  • First-class Support for Istio is released with version 1.0.8 of autostopping-controller.​ (CCM-8386) You can now onboard Istio virtualservices-based workloads to AutoStopping without editing the virtualservice manually​.

  • Now, you can sort perspective filters while creating cost categories, perspectives, etc. You can search for a filter quickly and apply it easily.​ (CCM-8597)​​

Early access​​

NA

Fixed issues​

NA

September 14, 2022, version 76708​

What's new​

NA

Early access​

N/A

Fixed issues​
  • A validation error occurred while entering the URL with space. (CCM-8832) To fix this issue, the URL is now truncated before validation.

September 7th, 2022, version 76619​

Fixed issues​
  • Round off Anomaly Slack Alerts to 2 Decimal Places (CCM-8769)
  • Refresh recommendation resources and instance details (CCM-8720)

August 31st, 2022, version 76518​

Enhancements​

  • Azure Connector Validations (CCM-7650)

    As part of Azure Connector validations for Inventory and AutoStopping, we're now checking whether the service principal has the required roles for these features: Reader role for Inventory and Contributor role for AutoStopping. These checks will run whenever Test Connector APIs are hit for CeAzure connectors.

    See Set Up Cloud Cost Management for Azure.

Fixed issues​
  • Getting exceptions while fetching filter values for GCP and AWS (CCM-8738, ZD-33142, ZD-33948) In the Perspective preview section, we are now checking both ruleFilters and idFilters to deduce whether it's a cluster perspective or not and based on querying the correct table (clusterDataAggregated or unifiedTable).
  • API Docs were incorrect (CCM-8336, ZD-31845) Return the list of Recommendations API doc updated.

August 25th, 2022, version 76425​

Fixed issues​

  • The Perspective recommendation filter is incorrect (CCM-8632) When you click on recommendations shown on the Perspective page, you will now see only the list of recommendations filtered for the Perspective that you are reviewing instead of listing the full list of recommendations unfiltered.

  • Account name updates in AWS don't cascade to CCM DB (CCM-8598) We were not updating the account name in daily sync. Now updating account name in daily sync.

  • Cluster Costs missing for since 5th August (CCM-8535, ZD-33355) Now, we are checking AWS Cluster data in billing_table for last 3 days and if data does not exist, we will run INSTANCE_BILLING batchJob. So, we are no longer dependent on AWS cluster data to run batchJob.

August 18th, 2022, version 76321​

What's new​

  • Cluster Perspective - Total Cost, Table values UX improvement (CCM-7968, ZD-31764)

  • Difficulty "Grouping By" Cost Category within Perspectives (CCM-7784)

    You can now search Cost Categories in your chart.

  • List BI Dashboards API (CCM-7649) You can now query a new API to list all the BI Dashboards specific to CCM: Cloud Cost BI Dashboards. Example query: curl -i -X GET \ 'https://app.harness.io/gateway/ccm/api/bi-dashboards?accountIdentifier=H5W8ioxxxA2MXg' \ -H 'x-api-key: pat.H5xxxA2MXg.6xxxmD'

Example response: { "status": "SUCCESS", "data": [ { "dashboardName": "AWS Cost Dashboard", "dashboardId": "226", "cloudProvider": "AWS", "description": "Discover and track analytical insights into your AWS cloud costs", "serviceType": "", "redirectionURL": "#/account/H5W8ioxxxA2MXg/dashboards/folder/shared/view/226" }, ... { "dashboardName": "AWS RDS Inventory Cost Dashboard", "dashboardId": "3309", "cloudProvider": "AWS", "description": "Overview of cloud spend across RDS instances, breakdown by accounts, regions, instance types etc.", "serviceType": "AWS RDS", "redirectionURL": "#/account/H5W8ioxxxA2MXg/dashboards/folder/shared/view/0000" } ], "metaData": null, "correlationId": "bc71c537-048f-4d53-80cd-8462158e1471" }

Fixed issues​

  • Fix labels null value (CCM-8558)

    When we were sending label.key IN [""] -> Empty Array, BE is setting the empty array to null. Now to handle it, we have added a null check while converting conditions values to filter values.

  • CCM Perspectives seem to be broken in new UI (CCM-8484, ZD-33142)

In the Perspective Preview section, we were not considering whether it’s a cluster perspective or not. Therefore, we always query unifiedtable. This issue has been resolved. Now, in Perspective Preview section, we are checking whether it’s a cluster perspective or not and based on that querying the correct table.

  • Azure Existing connector validation is failing at test connection (CCM-8423)

Something was changed in the base image for Docker files. Azcopy utility needs access to create .azcopy folder to keep job plan log files. It was not able to do so. Fix is to give an explicit path for it in which it has access.

August 8th, 2022, version 76128​

Fixed issues​

  • RDS Instance data in Dashboards don't reflect changes in InstanceClass (CCM-8411, ZD-32945, ZD-32995)

    The RDS inventory dashboards did not reflect the updated DBInstanceClass when RDS instance class was updated. Due to a bug in our RDS data-load CloudFunction, the DBInstanceClass column was not being updated in the awsRdsInventory table. The dashboards query this awsRdsInventory table, which is why the updated DBInstanceClass couldn't be seen in the dashboard. The issue has been resolved. The RDS Inventory dashboard now displays the updated instance-class as expected. Also, there was a discrepancy in data due to a bug in the join condition of our looker query. We have updated the join and the data looks correct now.

  • Azure Connectors are failing (CCM-8298, ZD-32605, ZD-32612) We had a regression in the data pipeline. Fix is deployed.

August 1, 2022, version 76030​

What's new​

CCM Perspective Preferences.

When you create a CCM Perspective you can now set Preferences for Include Others and Unallocated Costs.

For details, go to Perspective Preferences in Create Cost Perspectives.

Early access​

N/A

Enhancements​

Perspective Preferences: Unallocated and Include Others cost support added (CCM-7436)

Now while creating a perspective, you will see a Preferences tab to select the preferences for a particular Perspective. And on the Perspective page, you can toggle the preferences options to see their cost in the Perspective chart section.

Fixed issues​

  • CCM missing data for our production cluster (CCM-8214, ZD-32384)

    Usually, the node resource values from instanceType are displayed in the format custom-8-24576, but the format was different and looked like n2d-custom-8-220160-ext.

  • Cost Category-based perspective does not showcase cost breakdown (CCM-8068)

    During Perspective save, Cost Category was not identified as a separate data source and the grid API call was failing. Added Cost Category in data sources if Cost Category rules are present in Perspective.

  • Not including Others and Unallocated costs in perspectiveTimeSeriesStats (CCM-7973)

    You can include Others and Unallocated Cost for a Perspective Time Series Chart.

  • CCM dashboards database errors (CCM-7791)

    Converting queries to Batch queries. Removing certain Alter statements as they are no longer required.

July 18th, 2022, version 75921​

What's new​

N/A

Early access​

N/A

Enhancements​

N/A

Fixed issues​

  • AWS CCM Connector failing after previous successful connections (CCM-8143)

    A function was running out of memory because of a large volume of inventory data and could not execute fully. We have increased the memory for that function for now and the EC2 data is now being ingested.

  • Some ECS clusters do not show Tasks/Services (CCM-8126)

    The instance type filters were incorrect when grouping by task/service. Fixed the instance type filter.

  • Some Dashboards not working (CCM-8124, ZD-32035)

    Fixed the merge query in the load cloudfunction for AWS RDS.

  • CCM GCP connector showing no error when testing connection (CCM-8076)

    Make use of gcpConnectorInfo table for non-US regions and correct the error messages for framework to render them.

  • Azure perspective GCP Anomalies (CCM-7882) Azure perspective rules were not imposed on anomaly APIs. Added Azure rule enforcements.

July 11th, 2002, version 75829​

What's new​

  • Resource name display enhancement (CCM-8079)

    Resource names were truncating values in a column. Resources names are now shown in full if possible.

  • ECS recommendations enhancement (CCM-8009)

    We were showing $0.00 recommendation savings for ECS. Now only recommendations with minimum savings amount > $1 are shown on the list page.

    For more information, refer to Optimize AWS ECS Costs with Recommendations.

  • Perspectives CSV download improvement (CCM-7908)

    Perspectives CSV was downloading 2 times on first download.

    For more information, refer to Create Cost Perspectives.

  • More descriptive browser tab titles were added (CCM-7869)

  • Slack notifications for Budgets (CCM-7816) You can now set the notification channel to Slack and add multiple webhook URLs when creating a budget. For more information, refer to Create a Budget.

Early access​

n/a

Fixed issues​

  • Changed the APIs related to Recommendations and Anomaly recently as part of adding Filter Panels (CCM-7999, ZD-31845)

    In the updated API, the filterType field is required. Without this field, an "Unable to process JSON" response error appears.

  • CCM AWS Connector failing connection (CCM-7964) Added the following ways for dealing with large volumes of customer billing data: optimized data sync configuration, increased sync timeout minutes, and handled truncated response from AWS API.

  • Add-hoc Perspective Filters not accepting values (CCM-7941, ZD-31977)

    Users can now filter perspectives AWS account by accountName.